Re: updates.laptop.org now serves F11-for-XO1.5 builds

2009-11-24 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
updates.laptop.org now serves F11-for-XO1.5 builds through olpc-update Long ago I was able to run olpc-update using an USB stick as input. Does the current olpc-update still support that mode ? mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

some os9 impressions

2009-11-23 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I'm a Terminal user - and I had to install Terminal myself. Some other popular (my opinion) activities not included were: irc, maze, and tamtam_mini. Speak speaks; Record records audio. There was one circle icon in Neighborhood, but two circle icons in Frame. All activities launched (that

Re: OS and Firmware testing for XO 1.5 B2: gnash

2009-11-18 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Tiago wrote: I have testedd it in the XO-1.5 but it unfortunately is crashing with a green scrreen on video, a problem that Mikus has already described in Mplayer on the test builds. On the XO-1.5, I get Mplayer to *not* crash by telling it to not use a vt driver. The command line I use is '

some os42 impressions

2009-11-17 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I've noticed time-outs-from-the-game with os40 that I had not noticed before. For instance, when I boot with the check game key, the boot process simply stops for more than 50 seconds (just after a message about rtc) before continuing. Sometimes quite trivial commands just stop for a

Why does Sugar mount removable volumes ?

2009-11-17 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I have the subdirectories for some Activities installed on my permanent SD card (it's in the external slot of my XO-1.5). Os42 is not mounting (at boot) my permanent SD card. I experimented with removing the SD card's entry from /etc/fstab. The first time sugar came up (after boot), it did

Help, please - how to put a build on an USB stick so that it will boot on an XO ?

2009-11-13 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I do not have a Fedora system. I've been using 'livecd-iso-to-disk' script for building USB sticks from .iso files. But that never has worked for me with XO-1.5 builds. And just now it failed with a recent XO-1 build. [Booting stalls - can't mount root filesystem.] A while ago I read a

yum has problem with F11 repositories

2009-11-12 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Both yesterday and today, I'm getting an error message about filelists.xml.gz on http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~dsd/repos/, from both the f11 and f11-xo1 repositories: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum mikus ___ Devel mailing list

resource icons in frame

2009-11-11 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Just installed sugar-0.84.7-1 on my XO-1.5. Frame now shows two icons for my ethernet connection (as well as two battery icons). mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Reopening a ticket on dev.laptop.org

2009-11-10 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I reopened a ticket which I believed had been prematurely closed -- and somewhere along the line the original description of the problem (for which that ticket had been written) got lost. Can that original description be retrieved from trac ? What can I do in a future situation to ensure that

Off-Trac happenings (from Ugg ?}

2009-11-09 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I'm receiving e-mail copies of matchmaker comments to year-old dev.laptop.org trac tickets, where *looking* at (for instance) http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8834 does not show such new? comments. mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: New F11 for XO-1.5 build 39

2009-11-09 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Description of changes in this build: * Include olpc-netutils in build (#9587) It was kind of you to include these -- but despite the upbeat comments in #9587, of the eight utilities in this package: two show no output; four omit some information (and get back errors from some of the

Re: crond disabled?

2009-11-04 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Do we really want to be running something like update which (I assume) takes significant resources without consulting with the user? Yes! Remember, these are not designed as normal laptops. They are for young children and for use in schools. The only time to do updates is when the child is

soas04xo behavior on XO-1

2009-10-31 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I'm booting soas04xo from nand on an XO-1. For me, alt-tab does not work to switch between activity sessions - I have to use the icons in Frame top right to switch between Activities. But I've customized my system, so I don't know if this is a sugar problem, or my problem. Please, would

Re: os33 - video regression ?

2009-10-26 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
YouTube video can be encapsulated H.264, On2 VP6, or the older Sorenson Spark. So it's important to try to test the same file. Where you are coming from appears to differ from where I am coming from. I am looking at the XO from the point of view of How usable is this? That question does not

Re: os33 - video regression ?

2009-10-26 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
James wrote: I'm curious to know if it was the change in #9538 that caused the regression. Could you temporarily change the display depth back to what it was and see if that restores the original behaviour? I'd love to. But I don't know how to do that. Changing the 'Depth' in Screen in

Re: On XO-1 soas03xo has flaky behavior

2009-10-25 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
* The crash on vertical scrolling is really hurting me. I cannot access all of my Journal, nor all of Home List View (I have to use the search field -- *if* I know what I am looking for). Got the same issue, but could work around it by setting the X server into 24bpp mode instead of

os33 - video regression ?

2009-10-25 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
When I try to run mplayer on os33 with the parameters that I use on the XO-1, the XO-1.5 shows a bright green screen and locks up completely (all that I can do is power off). I have to explicitly tell mplayer to use the 'x11' driver (i.e., *no* implied acceleration) in order to see a moving

On XO-1 soas03xo has flaky behavior

2009-10-24 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
This is with XO-1 booted from USB stick created from soas03xo.iso: * alt-tab does not switch for me between activity sessions -- to switch I had to click on the icons in Frame. I don't know if virgin soas03xo does this - I've added some customizations - therefore I didn't want to write

the importance of providing swap space

2009-10-23 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Helped a friend install os8 on his XO-1. When we got done, he decided to enter the command 'yum install gparted'. Yum failed with a not enough memory error. I happened to have an SD card with me that had a swap partition defined on it. The XO's SD slot was already in use, so I attached an

XO-1.5 unexpected behavior

2009-10-17 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I normally work with both an external USB mouse and an external USB keyboard plugged in. Just now I noticed that the keys on the XO itself were no longer working; neither was the touchpad. [The USB devices continued to work.] Rebooting made no change (whether the USB devices were plugged in

XO-1.5 follow-on impression

2009-10-16 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Was able to use the XO-1.5 (os32) at another location, connected without a proxy. My opinion - this is a quite nice machine. The principal user-perception experience where improvement would still be welcome is video support. Changes to the screen (e.g., show/hide Frame) are not being done

Re: XO-1.5 follow-on impression

2009-10-16 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
My experience with the XO-1.5 has been much better: 4) Both Browse and Firefox on Gnome don't load certain popular sites (see below). I don't go to Gnome - I run both Browse and Firefox under Sugar. Neither Browse nor Firefox had any trouble whatsoever with either of those sites (Skype,

os30 first impressions

2009-10-13 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Finally - the first new (non-F9) build that I've installed in over nine months that can show movies for me !! [Though even on the XO-1.5, YouTube remains snapshotty rather than smooth.] I'm still getting a feel for what this system will do. My suite of multimedia applications works - and all

Re: Images partitioned right?

2009-10-09 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Using an USB-SD adapter with one of those recommended SD cards might be a good idea. I'm very heavily dependent on SD cards. In 2008 it was my experience that using a particular hub/adapter to initialize SD cards, I was often seeing partition table corruption. What I ended up doing was to

soas70xo impressions

2009-09-29 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Disclaimer: I am not asking for help; I'm sharing my experiences. Ran with soas70xo (booted from nand) on my XO-1. Many of the difficulties with previous SoaS builds were still present, with some new ones added. The X crash scrolling problem is a BLOCKER - for instance, because of this

Re: soas70xo impressions

2009-09-29 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Regarding _using_ the 'new' toolbar: I would argue your 'significant amount of XO screen real estate' is a rather large exaggeration ;-) My XO-1 screen is 4.5 inches vertically. On soas70xo, two toolbars together visually black out .75 inches vertically. That's 1/6 of my entire screen.

Re: XO-1 Mesh support in F11, testing request

2009-09-19 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Anyone interested in helping the last few steps in getting XO-1 mesh support running again? Sorry - but my news (testing mesh support in F11) is not good. Could not run a Chat session using any F11-on-XO1 systems. Don't know if it is a problem with Chat-65 itself, or with the interface. I

Re: 0.84 for XO-1

2009-09-19 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
... testing seems like something that is needed, though I would like to know what is required in order to say that one of these builds is ready to be deployed somewhere. The __principal__ thing that keeps me from recommending one of these builds is lack of moving pictures output. ['Record'

soas63xo impressions

2009-09-15 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Disclaimer: I am not asking for help; I'm sharing my experiences. Ran with soas63xo (booted from nand) on my XO-1. Many of the difficulties with previous SoaS builds were still present. My Settings - DateTime - as soon as (to move the selection off UTC to my timezone) I pressed (cursor

Re: soas63xo impressions

2009-09-15 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Regarding revised toolbar design: Putting the user coloured activity icon in as the first icon is also a nice design win regarding identifying the activity you're looking at (and whose it is). I'm not your typical user - I usually have more than 100 Activities installed. You may remember

Re: updates and testing SocialCalc on the Sugar Live CD

2009-09-03 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Lately, I have been testing SocialCalc on the Sugar Live CD, and have run into issues. Don't know what is working/not_working for you, but as an experiment I just tried SocialCalc on my XO-1 with build soas-2-beta (this build was booted from an USB stick) -- socialcalcactivity-1.xo (size

Request for help - can variable values be passed to an Activity ?

2009-09-02 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I've modified some system files in /etc to define some global environmental variables ( export WHAT=foo ). Those variables are available within the environment passed to a Terminal session (or when logged on at the text console) -- the command 'echo $WHAT $LANG' will emit foo en_US.UTF-8.

Request for help - can variable values be passed to an Activity ?

2009-09-02 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I've modified some system files in /etc to define some global environmental variables ( export WHAT=foo ). Those variables are available within the environment passed to a Terminal session (or when logged on at the text console) -- the command 'echo $WHAT $LANG' will emit foo

Re: Next Test Day: Sugar on a Stick [Tomorrow]

2009-09-02 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Booted an XO-1 into soas-2-beta (from USB stick). Had the usual SoaS3 problem making it ready for me (I use __Terminal__ for most of what I do): Initially, boot got as far as Home View - but the ring did not include Terminal. When I clicked on the upper right image to switch to Home List

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-29 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I haven't been able to test that .xo link on an actual OLPC yet, so feel free to pass along bug reports, experiences, etc. These days I'm running F11-on-XO1 on my XO-1s -- SarynPaint launches and runs on both my smparrish build os6 and on my mtd build soasxo59. It shows that just checked in

Can the OLPC support power users ?

2009-08-29 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
So, is there some way I could list the OpenJDK dependency in the activity.info file and have the system offer to download and install OpenJDK if it has not yet been installed? No, activity bundles are supposed to be self-contained, not depending on anything else other than the standard

Re: SoaS-for-XO-1 image

2009-08-22 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
http://people.sugarlabs.org/~mtd/soas-xo1/soasxo59.removable.img.tar.lzma Seemed to run well (booted from USB stick). Thanks for a good job. mikus p.s. Got sound from 'Speak'. But as usual with all F11-on-XO1 builds to date, 'Record' (quickly) gave up the ghost, without showing me any

Re: SoaS-for-XO-1 image

2009-08-22 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
as usual with all F11-on-XO1 builds to date 'Record' (quickly) gave up the ghost, without showing me any moving picture output from the camera. The camera doesn't work in Record, which is at least this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D498900 You will notice that this

SoaS3-20090822 limps

2009-08-22 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Disclaimer: I am not asking for help; I'm sharing my experiences. Booted SoaS3-200908222158.iso (from USB stick) on my XO-1. I don't know if it was the USB stick's hardware, or the build's software, but now my system seemed to run at least twice as slow as normal. The first try I got as

SoaS3-20090818 does not successfully launch Sugar on XO-1

2009-08-19 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Booted SoaS3-200908182110.iso (from USB stick) on my XO-1. The screen kept switching between white and back as the system repeatedly tried to launch an X session for Sugar - but failed. I manually started a Sugar session from the text console. The screen got as far as showing Home View (no

What level Sugar Activities on F11 ?

2009-08-17 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I asked once before, but got no answer: | When the XO-1.5 on F11 software is eventually deployed (e.g., | installed by the factory), what level of Sugar will it provide ? I just installed 'write-66.xo' on a Parrish XO-1 build on my XO-1. It failed to launch, because its python code could not

Re: What level Sugar Activities on F11 ?

2009-08-17 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Is XO-1.5 software expected to run Activities marked for 0.86 ? If we are shipping Sugar 0.84, the answer is no (due to API incompatibility). The current build tools pulls in the latest stable activities from ASLO somewhat blindly (as per my understanding) I am interpreting this answer to

Re: yum with recent soas builds on XO-1

2009-08-14 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Martin Dengler wrote: Not sure about *that* mountpoint in particular, but a forest of invisible tmpfs mounts is present in the XO image because we use stateless Fedora. This allows olpc-update to work its magic. This thread segment is about SoaS now (a bit OT for devel@, I agree), which

Re: yum with recent soas builds on XO-1

2009-08-13 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Apparently irrespective of the content of /etc/fstab, recent F11-on-XO1 builds are _mounting_ /var/cache/yum as a tmpfs. After a very quick look, F11-on-XO mounts tmpfs there only via /etc/fstab, so I don't know how to explain this. If you find the answer I'd be interested to know it. I

Re: New F11 for the XO-1 build 5

2009-08-13 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Steven wrote: I have gotten a report of the XO-1 locking up after within an hour of booting booting when left idle. Can anyone else report if this is happening. I leave my XOs up 24/7. I don't recall os5 (or earlier parrish versions) ever having locked up when left idle. Mark wrote:

yum with recent soas builds on XO-1

2009-08-12 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Disclaimer: I am not asking for help; I am sharing my experiences. Apparently irrespective of the content of /etc/fstab, recent F11-on-XO1 builds are _mounting_ /var/cache/yum as a tmpfs. What gets placed into /var/cache/yum is the indexes of the repositories, plus actual packages as they

Re: Candidate paper cut bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-10 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
chance ... a 8.2.x release aimed at fixing the paper cuts[1] and low-risk bugs that hinder XO-1 deployability _today_ in the field - have *you* got any candidates? Tell me about them :-) I myself don't really patch -- mostly all I do is to add things to make the XO more usable (as a Linux

pippy on F11

2009-08-10 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
The webpage for Pippy says it ought to work with Sugar 0.82-0.86. Many of the Examples in Pippy include the line 'import pippy'. Ran Pippy-35.xo on build os5. As has been my experience with many F11 builds, when I tried to run any Pippy-provided example which included that coding line, what I

soas3 for X11

2009-08-04 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
[Disclaimer: I am not asking for help; just sharing my experience.] Tried the new SoaS3-200908021950.iso image (with Sugar 0.85) on my XO-1 - it works. Just about the first thing I do upon installing a build is to use Terminal. And Terminal opened __offset__ in the XO-1 screen (its upper

Re: New F11-for-XO1 build is available and needs testing

2009-08-02 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Tomeu, I have great difficulty in dealing with your responses to the posts I make. What I had written was a reply to Steven Parrish asking I would appreciate testing and feedback. It was my intent to provide feedback on system-related matters that in my opinion deserved being brought to the

Fedora List fedora-olpc-l...@redhat.com

2009-08-02 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I copied both files to a usb drive then booted with holding the esc key. Then 'copy-nand u:\os3.img' then it copied and I got back the firmware prompt. It did not bark about wrong crc or something like that. Then I switched the XO-1 off then switched on and all I can get is a Boot failed

Re: New F11-for-XO1 build is available and needs testing

2009-08-02 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Yioryos posted a list of package differences between os2 and os3. I don't know how authoritative this list is -- but if those are *all* the differences, I myself would not have needed to migrate my os2 XO-1s to os3 -- by explicitly having applied the individual package upgrades in that list, I

Re: New F11-for-XO1 build is available and needs testing

2009-08-01 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Steven wrote I have taken over creating builds for the XO1 from Daniel, and have created a new build of F11 for the XO1. OS3 can be downloaded from http://dev.laptop.org/~smparrish/xo-1/builds/ I've converted two XO-1s from running 'build os2' to running 'build os3'. On os3, have not found

Re: New F11-for-XO1 build is available and needs testing

2009-08-01 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
This build OS3 includes the pretty boot animations, and also replaces olpcsound with csound. I would apprectiate testing and feedback. Disclaimer: perhaps off-topic Usability report : Was running Firefox 3.5 (*not* the Activity). Noticed two things: * The font size (for things like the

Re: [Testing] new F11-for-XO1 images available for testing

2009-07-25 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
The images come with olpc-update and the initramfs is ready to boot our special versioned layout filesystem (like 8.2 and previous). However the code to generate the images as the versioned layout is currently disabled because it exposed a bug in OFWs ext2 code. That bug is fixed in q3a06,

Re: Testing summary - 18 July 2009 Wellington, NZ

2009-07-18 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Could not install activities on some XOs from sugarlabs site. I guess I am confused as to where you were downloading from. Did you try activities.sugarlabs.org? They are going to activities.sl.o from the main sugarlabs.org page The way I install Activities on F11-builds on XO-1 is

Re: New kernel branch for XO-1 and XO-1.5 development

2009-07-10 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
the problem is that I'd want to test the build before pushing, and I'd want to be able to distribute what I test. Also I wouldn't worry about testing before publishing. We don't do it for XO-1.5 builds, never did it for joyride, etc. That's what users are for! I'm someone who doesn't mind

activity launch screen

2009-06-13 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
With XO-1, was monkeying around with a recent fedora-xo build, and accidentally removed a font directory. That confused X, with the result that it drew things more compactly than it was supposed to. I had launched Terminal. With the Terminal window now occupying less than a quarter of my

[OT] Test run of 2009/05/25 image

2009-06-09 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Disclaimer: This post contains Off-Topic meta discussion Conclusion: fedora-olpc, to be a sucess, needs a much slimmer UI than that of GNOME. Success needs to be defined. Seems to me the OLPC was envisioned mainly for a single-application environment. Except for being slow at

how to confuse the user

2009-05-29 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Recently I've been experimenting with booting my XO from an USB stick. I've been using the script 'livecd-iso-to-disk' to place various F11-based builds (one at a time) onto the USB stick. Just now, when a newly-created USB stick finished booting on the XO (and a virgin sugar 0.84.5-1 was

overhead in a G1G1 environment

2009-05-28 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
The default that comes with the OS causes the probabilities to come true about once per day. This can be changed by the theft deterrence server for future requests in the update part of the response. olpc-update-query is also called by cron every 15 minutes. I seem to remember with 8.2.x

Re: csound on Fedora 11/rawhide

2009-05-12 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I've just updated csound in F12/devel to csoound 5.10.1 and would like to get some testing (don't worry about the F12 designator its the same as F11) to see if everything works as expected for the OLPC stuff so when I push it into F11 and ultimately we can obsolete olpcsound. plus I

CAUTION: XO booting is sensitive to filesystem corruption

2009-04-27 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Been running rawhide-xo lately on my XOs. Have also installed q2e41.rom . Each XO has a permanent SD card. I was getting intermittent occasions when an XO would not boot -- soon after the screen background (as for ok prompt) changed from white to black, its boot process would hang with only

please post comments - 801 failed to connect to AP

2009-04-21 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Met with some XO owners at an establishment. The location had a multitude of APs (the most sensitive XO saw more than a dozen) - most of them locked. The establishment itself had an open AP to which none of the XOs were able to connect - probably because nm-tool showed that AP to be on

was not able to escape from Object Chooser

2009-04-18 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Disclaimer: I am not asking for help. I am describing something I encountered which in my opinion is overly restrictive. I'm running the latest rawhide-xo .img on my XO. I had manually installed Browse-108. Happened to access a webpage which showed me an 'entry field', into which I

Re: GPS on XO

2009-04-07 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I can't figure out how to get 45F9-9E44 out of that. Maybe it's a hash of a long string. I have *not* explored all the ins and outs of removable device identification. I have, however, cussed at them long enough to develop some rules of thumb: - The '45F9-9E44' is an 'UUID' (you might

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I thought now that we're getting closer to the Fedora 11 freeze it would be a good time for everyone to where they're at as we move towards F-11/9.1.0/olpc-next. My biggest current question is: When on my XO I enter 'yum check-update' (using either the latest SoaS2 .iso or the latest

Re: move to rawhide update

2009-04-07 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
If we are talking about 9.1.0, it would be nice if 'sound' and 'moving pictures' worked in F-11 on the XO. Currently they don't. Are there bugzilla reports for these? I. - I haven't figured out how to do an exhaustive search on bugzilla. 'OLPC' picks up some; 'XO' picks up some;

Re: GPS on XO

2009-04-06 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
All sorts of command line code gets in trouble if there are spaces in filenames. As a rule, Linux handles filenames well if the spaces therein are prefixed with escape. [ For file 'Foo Bar', enter 'Foo\ Bar' ] Haven't tried this with filenames specified within RoadMap, though. mikus p.s.

Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Beta for XO

2009-04-03 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
joyride or not, it's simply not the case that hardware should work as expected. :-) Actually, the hardware should work as expected, but the software might not. ;-) I'm running ~cjb/rawhide-xo/f11-beta/20090403.img on my XO. [I don't know it that was built with the correct repositories.]

Re: improving XO connectivity rates

2009-03-18 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
my XO never showed me a connection to that AP. Before or after correcting the permissions on the new binary? You are right. My apology. I set the permissions on the binary when I downloaded it, but then copied the binary to backup, and again copied it from backup to the system with which

Re: improving XO connectivity rates

2009-03-18 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Follow-up to my previous response: 2009/3/17 Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com: I'm not sure which build version that workaround is supposed to apply to. Anyway, I tried it with candidate-801 on my XO. I don't have wireless at home. =A0Went to an establishment which had a wireless AP (key-free

Re: improving XO connectivity rates

2009-03-17 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
... the workaround definitely seems to be working fine. If you'd like to try it, you simply have to replace the shell script at /etc/NetworkManager/callouts/nm-dhcp-client.action with this binary: http://dev.laptop.org/attachment/ticket/8104/nm-dhcp-action (named as nm-dhcp-client.action).

Re: announce: alternate power management

2009-03-13 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
configurable timeouts for screen dim and sleep. the dim level is configurable. My XO systems are plugged in to the AC, so I normally leave them running 24/7. But in the middle of the night if I happen to walk by, I notice if they are acting as light sources. Two concerns (for which I

Re: Lockup of 800 and 801

2009-03-03 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Both 800 and 801 lockup completely fairly regularly. Once locked up the keys don't work . All I can do is hit the start button to turn the machine off and then turn it back on. Am I the only one having this problem? I'm not having a lockup, but I am seeing unwanted behavior. I have an XO

Re: What to expect from developers, are there any left?

2009-03-02 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
What would you do if you ran Ubuntu on your main computer but some of the buttons on your keyboard were not working correctly? You would file a bug with Ubuntu, who would hopefully either fix the problem on their own back, or help you to report the issue to the developers of the related

Re: question about how to re-flash the XO

2009-02-28 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Suppose I have a file 'foobar.img' on an USB stick. On an unsecured XO, I'm at the 'ok' prompt. What is the difference between using 'copy-nand u:\foobar.img' versus using 'update-nand u:\foobar.img ?? My question regarded an unsecured XO -- I have /security/develop.sig on the (install) USB

question about how to re-flash the XO

2009-02-27 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Suppose I have a file 'foobar.img' on an USB stick. On an unsecured XO, I'm at the 'ok' prompt. What is the difference between using 'copy-nand u:\foobar.img' versus using 'update-nand u:\foobar.img ?? Thanks, mikus ___ Devel mailing list

Re: 8.2.1 activity launch failure not recorded

2009-02-24 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Sounds like you've found a bug, there should always be something logged. Perhaps you could file a ticket with olpc-log output attached? There are two perfectly good existing tickets (#8861, #8834). My point was that this problem can still show up in 8.2.1. [Attached some log output to

Re: SD content disappearance

2009-02-23 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
- I am running normally, with access to my SD card content - I plug in an (additional) USB external storage device - I can no longer access my SD card content Is this a workflow you also followed with 8.2? IOWs, any reason to believe it's new in 8.2.1? Now that I think about it some

8.2.1 activity launch failure not recorded

2009-02-23 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I had the RoadMap Activity installed on my 800 system. I just updated (via manual 'sugar-install-bundle') to the latest version. Now it does not launch. The fault is likely to be mine - I either goofed the manual install, or should not have applied the latest-and-greatest to 8.2.1.

Re: getting the truth about future releases onto wiki.laptop.org

2009-02-23 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
no need for page deletions; there's still a lot to be worked out over the coming months. I believe joyride is working as designed at the moment and should be updated once 8.2.1 is quite out the door. The substantial thing that Joyride has going for it is that it *finally* provides a working

SD content disappearance

2009-02-22 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I have a permanent ext2 SD card in my XOs, which contains data and software (in addition to those on nand). Twice now, while running 800 (the 8.2.1. candidate), the following sequence has occurred: - I am running normally, with access to my SD card content - I plug in an (additional) USB

Re: power consumption after shutdown

2009-02-14 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Chris Ball and Paul Fox responded: I take this to mean that *something* was draining some power for the two days the XO was sitting in its shut down state. The embedded controller was. Something needs to be watching for a power button press in order to know when to turn on. Thank you. I

Re: power consumption after shutdown

2009-02-14 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
This gets more and more bizarre !! James wrote: The displayed state of charge is stored in the chip in the battery, and is maintained by the EC. The battery does not change it's own state of charge value. and (If one discharges an XO battery outside the XO using a home lighting

Re: power consumption after shutdown

2009-02-14 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
My apologies for not being clear. I'll try again: I want to feel that the battery that I just put into the XO I'm walking out the door with is as charged up as it normally can be. 1) If that battery came from an XO that was plugged into the AC 24/7 for the past week -- I *think* it is

power consumption after shutdown

2009-02-13 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
As far as I can tell, the battery in the XO-1 retains its charge quite well when taken out of the case. But in my experience, when I specify 'Shutdown' to the software, and close the XO lid after all its lights (including 'power') are extinguished -- then when two days later I insert the AC

Re: staging-27 issues

2009-02-06 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
BUG: Software update did not find the 8.2.1 specific Etoys activity release at http://etoys.laptop.org/xo/8.2.1 What is the proper Etoys activity .xo to use with staging-27 ? Etoys-99.xo (the latest; goes with etoys 4.0-2205-2 in staging-27) ? or Etoys+MP3-94.xo (added function for a

Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-02-06 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Why didn't Software update install the newer Browse (v.101 ?) that according to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/8.2.1#Bug_fixes addresses ticket #9112 Enable Browse to embed PDF files in itself Because it is a bit of a hack, aimed at deployments only. I don't think it will be

Re: Mesh support very likely to miss Sugar 0.84

2009-02-05 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I'm not sure completely sure about deployments but how much are they actually used? Two kids under a tree don't technically need a mesh to collaborate (as cool as it sounds). Concentrating on deployments risks disrespecting G1G1 purchasers. In Sugar 0.84, will mesh at least be disabled, from

Re: New joyride build 2643

2009-02-05 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
When I try to fetch this with 'olpc-update', I get: I don't think the requested build number exists. mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Mesh support very likely to miss Sugar 0.84

2009-02-04 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
In Sugar 0.84, will mesh at least be disabled, from the point of view of Ohm and the kernel, so that the WiFi chip can be powered down when it's not in use for WiFi? To me, one of the most attractive points about the OLPC is the capability to use it collaboratively far from civilization.

looked for, but did not find, control knobs for mesh

2009-02-01 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
To me, two kids under a tree is a very important scenario. Although mesh fails on current Joyrides, I'm experimenting with manual intervention (e.g., ifconfig) to get it going anyway. What I notice is that that the mesh-related software on the XO does not support all descriptions: -

Re: OLPC where to go development advice.

2009-01-31 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
But I have *not* been able to assign a static ip address when a real network was involved - Network Manager intervenes and destroys whatever setup I've configured. [And if I stop Network manager, the XO manages to 'vanish' the *hardware* device to which I would be assigning my

Re: OLPC where to go development advice.

2009-01-30 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
You can configure a static ip address using ifconfig from the command line. You'll need to be root. Unfortunately, the OLPC has Network Manager, which knows better. [I *have* been able to use ifconfig to assign a _mesh_ address on a F10 Joyride (which otherwise has mesh support broken).] But

[Testing] 8.2.1 Release Status - Thursday, Jan. 29, 2008

2009-01-29 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
a new firmware, q2e30 On non-secure XOs (i.e., with developer key), q2e30 now by default shows pretty boot. I did not see this same need with every XO I tried, but to consistently be able to stop at the 'ok' prompt, I sometimes had to press 'check' (for non-pretty boot) when booting. mikus

Re: Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-28 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Hal Murray wrote: For me, the new wireless is a step backwards. My setup used to fail occasionally. Now it connects occasionally. genesee wrote: wifi has been broken in staging-9 and 11 Pia Waugh added: I had a similar problem. I'm on a WEP network which worked fine on 8.2.0, but we

would like to try mesh at 9.1 level

2009-01-20 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Even with the mid-January-release sugar packages applied, mesh shows up as disconnected on my XO (in particular, it is not being assigned an IPv4 address). Meaning that when I try communicating between XOs without an having an Access Point, I can only use 8.2 builds. Are there control blocks

Re: administrative security

2009-01-11 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
... are mechanisms in place to prevent students from installing unauthorized apps, or malware? That is a social issue - how can kids be motivated to do acceptable things, and forgo immoral ones ?? I am much more concerned about how to prevent *adults*. The original thought was that if an

Re: automatic reminder of 'software update' when installing a new build

2009-01-10 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I have seen the wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/8.2 page list Activity versions that were *older* than those listed for plain G1G1. That's exactly as it is supposed to work. G1G1 lists dev versions, G1G1/8.2 the stable versions tested with 8.2. I did say 'o.k.' to this explanation

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